Sweet Believing: Eight Character Studies of the Scottish Covenanters PB
By: Jock Purves| Product Details | |
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| Publisher | Ambassador |
| Year | 1998 |
| ISBN | 9781840300444 |
The title of this book is taken from a Scottish Convanter under death sentence who said "Farewell sweet believing." This book retells the stories of eight such Scottish Covenanters, who died rather than forsaking their faith.
All believers owe a debt to the Covenanters for their faith, for their faith held no lifeless opinions.
It was spiritual and Evangelical.
They cleared the way and dug the foundations of every religious revivla we have since known.
To them we owe our way of life, our constitution and our institutions.
The covenantors, together with the Puritans, gained freedom in every realm of human living. To them we owe our way of life, our constitution and our institutions.
Author
Jock Purves was born in 1901, the eldest of five children. Suffering from poor health as a child, he left school at the age of fourteen and became apprenticed as a moulder. Taking evening classes to make up for missed days at school, he found a delight in English language and literature, and Scottish history. He was converted when the evangelist D. P. Thomson visited his home town of Bathgate, West Lothian during his 1919/20 tour.
